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Class C Friday: Kearney Catholic, Bishop Neumann stay unbeaten
Class C state softball Friday roundup: six games, four teams left.
HASTINGS, Neb. — Six Class C games on Friday at the Bill Smith Softball Complex cut the field to four. Kearney Catholic and Bishop Neumann are unbeaten, while defending champion St. Cecilia and No. 8 Yutan/Mead each won twice on the elimination side to stay alive.
Winners bracket: No. 1 Kearney Catholic (22-3 entering the tournament) beat No. 4 Hastings St. Cecilia 12-4 in six innings. P. Adkisson went 3-for-4 with two doubles and five RBIs, and the Stars stole seven bases. No. 3 Bishop Neumann beat No. 2 Ashland-Greenwood 5-2. It trailed 2-1 until the sixth, tied it, then scored three in the seventh. I. Stuhr struck out 10 and allowed no earned runs.
First elimination games: Yutan/Mead beat No. 5 DC West 2-1 behind K. Woster's home run and J. Siske's complete game. DC West went out with two 2-1 losses. No. 6 Fort Calhoun beat No. 7 CCV 15-7 in five innings, scoring in every inning. R. Keyser drove in four, and Fort Calhoun answered CCV's go-ahead four-run fourth with four of its own.
Second elimination games: Yutan/Mead had 18 hits and knocked out Ashland-Greenwood 16-10. A. Anderson and A. Jones homered, and Woster, L. Thompson and H. Schake each had three hits. Siske threw 220 pitches over her two complete games. St. Cecilia then shut out Fort Calhoun 8-0 in six innings. E. Kissinger allowed six hits, and T. Hawkinson and M. Bauer homered.
Eliminated Friday: DC West, CCV, Ashland-Greenwood and Fort Calhoun.
Saturday: Kearney Catholic plays Yutan/Mead in Game 11 at 10:00 a.m. on Field #1. That is a rematch of Wednesday's opener, which Kearney Catholic won 10-0 in five innings. Bishop Neumann plays St. Cecilia in Game 13 at 10:00 a.m. on Field #4. Yutan/Mead and St. Cecilia have to win twice, with Games 12 and 14 played only if necessary. The Class C champion is decided in Game 15 on Monday at noon at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln, where St. Cecilia won the 2025 title.
Sources: NSAA official box scores, Class C, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 (posted 8:45 p.m. CT, via NSAA Softball Championships HQ); NSAA Class C bracket sheet, retrieved Oct. 16, 2026, 9:48 p.m. CT. Innings are noted only where NSAA's results data marks them.
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